Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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A plan to raze four historic but rotting wood-frame buildings in the heart of Harvard Square and replace them with a new shopping arcade is drawing fire from area preservation groups.
But to make the plan work, Cambridge Savings Bank first must secure demolition permits to raze the historic buildings, which are located across from Out-of-Town News in Harvard Square.
THE BUREAU HAS ALWAYS WALKED A DIFFICULT beat, one that lies at the heart of American ambivalence. Largely through historic accident, the agency acquired responsibility for regulating three of the nation's most popular yet dangerous products: booze, cigarettes and guns. Its forebears include the "revenuers" who hunted moonshiners and...
"People have a very romantic image about Harvard, about it being very historic," she says. "But too many people see Harvard the institution and not the people."
TIME Diplomatic correspondent Dean Fischer says the Chinese are already incensed over efforts by Gingrich and other high-profile Republicans to recognize Taiwan as a free country -- a blunt assault on the fundamental "one China" policy that dates from President Nixon's historic 1972 trip to that country, and recognizes...